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Is Pinkberry frozen yogurt natural?

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Not a fan of the trendy frozen yogurt at all, but always fascinated by 'hidden' ingredients, wow what an article about your 'natural' trend. Not surpised at all if what most the stuff we consumed everyday has some invisible small print. interesting.

Here are some excerpts from the NYtimes frozen information.
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"After a class-action lawsuit was filed last year accusing the company of deceptive marketing, Pinkberry posted ingredients on its Web site. But that got little notice until the case was settled two weeks ago. (The company said the lawsuit had nothing to do with the posting.)"
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"The ingredients list for Original Pinkberry has 23 items. Skim milk and nonfat yogurt are listed first, then three kinds of sugar: sucrose, fructose and dextrose. Fructose and maltodextrin, another ingredient, are both laboratory-produced ingredients extracted from corn syrup"
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The list includes at least five additives defined by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization as emulsifiers (propylene glycol esters, lactoglycerides, sodium acid pyrophosphate, mono- and diglycerides); four acidifiers (magnesium oxide, calcium fumarate, citric acid, sodium citrate); tocopherol, a natural preservative; and two ingredients — starch and maltodextrin — that were characterized as fillers by Dr. Gary A. Reineccius, a professor in the department of food science and nutrition at the University of Minnesota and an expert in food additives.
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Pinkberry announced its certification two weeks ago, just as a preliminary settlement was reached in the class action suit. While saying it had done nothing wrong, Pinkberry agreed to donate $750,000 to hunger and children’s charities, and to pay the plaintiff’s legal costs.
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“Personally, I would have preferred that the money go toward consumer advocacy against misleading food marketers,” said Ray Gallo, a lawyer for the plaintiff.
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32 responses // Is Pinkberry frozen yogurt natural?

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    Very good! Excellent information meligrosa!

    Who in the world would vote against a posting about garbage being manufactured to be sold to children?

    What's wrong with those people?

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    Beware of anything that remotely tastes good.

    Neghie
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    watch this comment being used here, here, here, here and here

    Hmmm.
    I didn't know we could manufacture natural stuff in a lab.
    Learn something new everyday.

    huntre
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    Tell me though,

    Who's gonna stop eating it?

    --Jade

    addctd2whticnsay
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    funny enough... Pinkberry just moved their corporate HQ in my building.

    parisinla
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    What part of "natural" is a dollop of Pinkberry yogurt? More like "pink scary" judging from the ingredients list featuring a mix of sugar and corn syrup-derived sweetener. And does any one wonder why obesity and diabetes is on the rise among Americans? It doesn't necessarily take dozens of trips through the McDonald's drive-through to get "super-sized."

    Corn syrup in food products, by the way, has been banned from store shelves at Seattle grocery retailer PCC. Read more in Rebekah Denn and Kristin Dizon's story "Amid debate, grocery chain bans high-fructose corn syrup" (Seattle Post-Intelligencer, 30 November 2007).

    Incidentally, Pinkberry has opened its 50th location in Newport Beach, California (http://www.centredaily.com/business/story/549953.html).

    kinolina
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    If it needs to be process to exist, I say do not eat it.

    StuntBunny
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    Someone would redlight this story because they own stock maybe in this? There is often a blurring of lines between Natural and Organic. I did a quick search on google with"natural vs. organic" and this was just the first thing that came up. Like "greenwashing" there must be a word for this. Anyone know it?

    twodee
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    "Spin", I think.

    huntre
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    yogurt is so 80's , figure people in LA would digg this new found fad.

    tunin13
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    Bad Pinkberry. At least I won't buy overpriced "natural" yogurt, I'm sticking to cheap, super fake, non-fat fro yo around the corner. At least I know that's chalk full of things that are really really bad for me.

    dcuisinot
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    I'm sorry I'm a little unclear about whats happing here.

    natedawson
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    Pinkberry! Why hast thou forsaken me???

    SelmaA
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    How can you manufacture something natural?

    averagehero
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    it's still yummy. if pinkberry doesn't kill me, then something else will.

    ohh_Donna
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    Read "Fast Food Nation" by Eric Schlosser for a breakdown of what "natural" really means.

    mako2424
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    Good Information, thanks!

    queenofit
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    mmmmm..... propylene glycol esters

    you know, if they made plastic goop and put some sugar on it, and called it "plastic goop" I bet there'd be some takers.

    stephenthomson
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    As long as it tastes good, people won't stop eating it as a 'low-fat, tasty' and trendy alternative to ice cream. It's just like any other food; McDonalds' food is just a heart-attack in burger form, but people still eat it.

    Now, does Pinkberry commit these same falsities as Red Mango--because Red Mango is where it's at.

    Peewong
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    yep stephenthomson

    that would be Cool Whip...

    Cool Whip ingredients are chemically produced or are very bad for the human body.

    sweet tastes comes in Cool Whip is actually high fructose corn syrup and makes the body “fat”.

    The slippery factor in Cool Whip comes from ethylene oxide, which surprisingly makes part of antifreeze. If you polymerize ethylene oxide, or bond monomers to form long chains of polymers, then you get class polysorbate 60. And, class polysorbate 60 is found in certain detergents. Also, one of Cool Whip’s ingredients is protein purified from cow’s milk, known as sodium caseinate. This mixes oil and water “against their will.” And if you want to keep this “hemorrhoid cream” from liquefying then you use basically synthetic wax. All these ingredients make up most of what’s in Cool Whip! yum.....

    queenofit
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    I so called this! Seinfeld, anyone?

    The resemblance to that one episode is uncanny. :]

    KateLove
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    Nice post!

    We need full disclosure of ingredients.
    I had severe late onset asthma due to a build up of toxic chemicals like Salycilate which is in food preservatives and dyes.
    Rid those bad things in my diet and my asthma is fine now.

    CarolynGillis
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    i think it is important to know when businesses are lying and tricking consumers into buying their products, good work whoever brought this out

    alman365
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    So this is the "natural" alternative to a Dairy Queen cone? Looks the same to me...especially the large quantities of sugar additives...

    jimmyp
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    This is what we get for letting our food production be taken away from us by corporations. We eat genetically engineered food everyday without knowing it, and a large portion of food in grocery stores has these types of processed ingredients in them.

    Its not even about how healthy is it, its about a lack of control over our food. Our food system is one of the weakest protected things in our nation, and I forget the absolute details, but one of the head guys at the FDA quit and made a statement that if someone wanted to commit a terrorist act, our food supply was the easiest target.

    Buy local, grow veggies in your front yard, read labels and take our food back from the corporates!

    Kati_kat
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